Audio knowledge is all over the map among houses of worship, ranging from full-time audio engineers at the Megachurches down to volunteers with no sound background helping at small congregations. Answering the need for education, insight and best-practices in this very specific live sound niche, Dale Pro Audio, in collaboration with Worship, MD, and E.C. Professional Video, presented a two-day House of Worship Audio / Video Workshop, October 14-15 at its Queens, New York location.
It's been said the only survivors of a nuclear war would be cockroaches and Cher's career…but then there's the Anderton Awards, "honoring" the best at this year's AES Convention. The class action lawsuit regarding the main course at last year's awards dinner could have shut down the ceremonies permanently—but at the trial, expert witness Buggles the Man-Clown proved that cooking sewer rats at extremely high temperatures can in fact eliminate most pathogens. So there! With the judge throwing out the suit, the Anderton Awards are again poised to recognize products that might not otherwise gain recognition. The prize: a mention on this otherwise prestigious website, and of course, the grand prize is…well actually, there's no grand prize. Nevermind.
"I have some scenes that recall some delay times, but otherwise, the board is pretty live—just a vocal delay and a tiny bit of parallel compression on the kit; that's it. All the dynamics come off the stage. When I first started, I was squashing stuff a bit; Robert [Smith] listened afterwards and said, 'We're playing hard here and it's not opening up.' So it went—no gates." —Paul Corkett, FOH engineer, The Cure
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